OBJECTS OF COMMON INTEREST | VOLAX

共同利益對象 | VOLAX

比雷埃夫斯,波利德夫科斯街 39 號,雅典 CARWAN 畫廊 | 2021年9月2日

Carwan Gallery 現正於雅典展出與希臘設計工作室 Objects of Common Interest 的獨家合作項目。此次展覽呈現了名為 Volax 的全新系列,包含實體大小的燈具與座椅作品,也是該工作室首次運用木材進行創作。 


該系列名稱取自位於希臘提諾斯島(Tinos)上,一座座落於高聳且受強風吹襲山區的小村莊。巨大且幾乎呈現完美圓形的灰色岩石散佈在村莊周圍的高原與山坡上,造就了一處令人驚嘆且至今仍無法解釋的地質景觀。Volax 系列靈感源自這些神秘花崗岩不規則而大膽的體量感,透過每一件獨特的作品傳遞出基克拉澤斯群島(Cycladic)景致的氛圍與氣息。 
這是 Objects of Common Interest 在其材質語彙中首次使用木材,旨在引介一種極具觸感與感官體驗,將 Volax 岩石那令人著迷的形態引入居家環境之中。

Solid wood elements are carved into imperfect, rounded formations, often combined with rigid glowing acrylic volumes that emerge from within them or from the room elements in which they are placed. 


The result is an engaging collection of centrepieces in the form of lighting and seating elements at various scales, whose perception changes as one moves around them. The Volax collection is a continuation of the studio’s ongoing interest in abstraction and exploration of forms and materials. Installed across Carwan Gallery’s entire space like a sculptural garden, the exhibition Volax invites visitors to feel and explore each of the newly created objects from different angles, creating an almost immersive experience that plays with the perception of volume, material, transparency, weight and texture.

“In our work we have been interested in abstraction through the formal and material investigation, simplicity and juxtaposition, not of materials themselves, but of their characteristic properties guided by general notions and spatial qualities such as: solid and void, opaque and transparent, rigid and malleable, natural and artificial.


Using the concepts of defamiliarization and illusion, we manipulate perception through spatial exercises and gestural forming, to create objects — mono-material or often by articulation of more than one — disguising their weight, softness, structure: a volume resting upon another, a light tube seemingly bent or a see-through inflatable appearing as solid and heavy.” 

Objects of Common Interest, Volax at Carwan Gallery Athens - © Giorgos Sfakianakis